I believe it was last year when I first heard about Project Keswick and how VMware wanted to streamline and change how ESXi hosts are deployed at the edge. It sounded cool and exciting, and I made a note to keep an eye out for it. We fast forward to Read more…
Even though the process hasn’t changed much from 7.0, I thought I would post my walkthrough of how I deployed my vSphere Center 8.0 to my home lab on VMware Workstation. After downloading the VCSA ISO, I first mounted the ISO on my Ubuntu desktop and navigated to the vcsa Read more…
I have been using Powershell/PowerCLi a bit more with VMware Horizon lately, so I wanted to take a couple of posts to share a few things. The first is just how to use PowerCLI with Horizon. If you haven’t install PowerCLI yet, let’s start there. You can do it with Read more…
If you haven’t heard already VMware Learning Zone is doing a promotion of their premium subscription for 6 months. You can check out the details here. For those who aren’t familiar with VMware Learning Zone it is a Great resource for studying for various VMware certifications. Here are the exam Read more…
Just got an email, and it looks like that Vmware is moving Empower to be a virtual event. Here are the details I just got in my email
Recently I was having an issue with VMware Cloud Foundation downloading patches from Vmware. After much network troubleshooting, and determining that there was not an issue with DNS in the lab, I decided to try out the manual process from VMware. I really didn’t want to go through the process Read more…
Hey all, I have been wanting to do this for a while but am just now getting around to it. I passed my Hoirzon VCAP Design cert several months back and wanted to post about my experience and what I thought about my exam. I have taken a good amount Read more…
Section 7 – Configure vRealize Operations for Horizon Objective 7.1 – Install and configure the adapter instance and Horizon Broker Agent The vRealize Operations for Horizon broker agent is a Windows service that runs on a Horizon Connection Server host. It collects Horizon inventory information and sends that information to the Horizon Adapter. The broker agent runs Read more…
Objective 6.1 – Install and Configure VMware App Volumes Determine hardware and software requirements for installation (Ver 3.x) Database Requirements App Volumes Manager supports different versions of the Microsoft SQL database. SQL Server 2012 SP1, SP2, and SP3 (whenApp Volumes Manager is installed on Microsoft Server 2012 R2), Express, Standard, and Enterprise Read more…
Objective 4.1 – Install and Configure VMware Identity Manager Determine minimum hardware and software requirements Windows Hardware Sizing Requirements Ensure that you meet the hardware requirements for VMware Identity Manager installations for Windows. Number of Users Up to 1,000 1,000-10,000 10,000-25,000 25,000-50,000 50,000-100,000 Number of VMware Identity Manager servers 1 server 3 Read more…